John Ivison: Is John Baird jumping or is he being pushed?

February 3, 2015 5:12 AM

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Two weeks ago, a rumour that John Baird was going to resign bubbled up from inside the public service. It was quickly denied by the prime minister’s communications director as wishful thinking on the part of a foreign affairs bureaucracy that has no love for a minister so consistently disdainful of their advice.

He certainly seemed to be having a grand time this past week, yucking it up with U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, at a Boston Bruins-Ottawa Senators hockey game, before the two men dined at America’s oldest restaurant, the Union Oyster House.